Re:The impossible dream of USB-C
by stewbrew on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:49AM
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By this argument, wifi or bluetooth are even more insane. An interface that isn't a single-trick pony doesn't sound insane to me.
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But in the case of wifi or bluetooth you don't have to think about if your transfer medium supports the protocol or not (it's just dumb vacuum). In the case of USB the cable can be the weak link.
Also in the case of wifi and bluetooth compatibility issues have a chance to be resolved in software on your end. In the case of USB the list of supported protocols is the property of the hardware interface and the options to resolve these issues are limited.
In the end if you buy a device that has an "USB" port the specification that it has "USB-C" is meaningless, you want to know the exact list of hardware protocols that the port supports.
> But in the case of wifi or bluetooth you don't have to think about if your transfer medium supports the protocol or not
Sure you can - it's gotten better in recent years, but it used to be that a lot of devices didn't support WPA2. This was (typically at least) not fixed in software.